ForPeopleAttractedtotheSameSex

Absolute invert(Freudian term for
people whose "sexual objects are exclusively of their own
sex")

Adhesive lover(Used by Walt
Whitman)

Bender

Bent

Brilliant

Bulgarian

Cheerful(Synonym for
"gay")

Congenital invert(19th century term
that defines one's attraction as biologically
determined)

Contrarysexual(Used by 19th century
sexologists to define same-sex love as unnatural; also phrased as
"contrary sexual instinct")

Crooked

Curved

Deviate

Duck

Ducky

Eerquay(Pig Latin for
"queer")

Ego-dystonic homosexual(Medical term,
now obsolete; defines one as being ashamed of one's
homosexuality)

Epanga(Khoisan African term)

Ex-straight(Defines one's
attraction as acquired rather than inborn)

Family member

Fruit

Fruitcake

Fruiter

Fruit-fly

Fruit for monkeys

Fruit loop

Fruit plate

Funny

Gay

Happy(synonym for
"gay")

Hom(Homosexual counterpart of
"Het")

Homo

Homoeroticist

Homophile

Homosensual

Homosexual(Medical term)

Homosexualist(Defines one's
attraction as a political statement)

Homotrope

Isoeroticist

Isophile

Isophyl

Isosexual

Kamp

Ki-ki

Kinsey six(Exclusively attracted to the
same sex)

Latent heterosexual

Lavender

Member of the choir

Member of the club

Member of the family

Member of the team

Member of the union

Minty(A minty is usually a butch dyke
or an effeminate gay man)

Monarch

Musical

Nervous

Ngochane (Shona African term)

Nice enough

Non-heterosexual

Nudger

One of those

One of us

Platonist

Purple

Queer

Ripe fruit

Royalty

Same Gendered Lover(Sometimes used by
African-Americans to signify nonallegiance to the Euro-dominated
gay community)

Self-owner(Used by 19th century German
activist Adolf Brand, whose "Community of Self-Owners,"
composed of mostly bisexual males, defended queer rights while
also opposing all attempts to define same-sex love as a
biologically predisposed trait or as anything other than a free
and healthy choice)